Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-16
LIFE IN VIENNA,

| A Jerky Description Of Scenes in the Interesting Austrian Capital. LFrom the Buffalo News1
 Women here carry hods and mix mortar. Peculiar class. From the provinces. Wear l long boots to the knee. Short skirts to the boots Practical dress. But hot oruamen- l tai. Seven different costumes seen daily on the streets. Laborers at noon lie down and sleep on the pavements. Ditto ill the parks l on tho grass. Both sexes seen lying side by l side. No "keep eff the grass" at every turning. Polish Jew frequent. In black crowns reaching to the heels, high hats and ! long corkscrew curls. Look like tOthello." ]" | Big dogs drawing hand carts. Street cars won't stop for you. Only at certain places. Indicated by signpost on the track. The tub the universal vessel to carry things in. Oval shape. One staye longer than the rest. So 1t can be bound on the carriers back. Carries all the water up the six or seven | pairs of stone stairs in the Vienna houses. ! Clean clothes ditto for wash. Separate l shops for brandy, beer end wine. Peasant l on spree carries green twiy stuck in his | hatband to indicate to the Vienna public his present mental and moral condition. Hacks hung low on the wheels. Drivers in uni l form. Everythin2's in uniform here. Fares ! low. Ten cents carries you from Dombach | to Leopoldstadt Suburban villages five or
 
 l frequently seen driving on the streets. No | fuss; all hats go off as they go by. Soldiers | every where; sentries ditto, in chronic coIl- ! diton of saluting officers. Pleas abundant. l Everybody eats at the restaurant Vienna is I all restaurant on the ground floor. Little home cooking is done. Melange and rolls are the universal breakfast. Melange is half coffee and half hot milk, always brought you ! in a tall tumbler with big tablespoon. Living here is very public If you hire & room the chances are you must pass through ' somebody's bedroom to get to it, or have someone pass through yours. Female help, indifferent or oblivious to gentlemen lodgers, come right iu at all hours, and without l knocking, when on duty.
 Stoves are like monuments, nine feet ! high, covered with porcelain. The furnace ! holds about two quarts of coal. The rest is monument. Handsome men, good shapes, \ full chests, fine bass voices. A pleasure to ! sit in railway stations and hear the officials ! in charge call the trains. Handsome women \ ditto. Everybody out on the street and | shopping by eight or nine in the morning. Nap at noon. Gardens full of families din- ing in open air at five p. m. They go it till ! nine. Music, flowers, statuary all about. Eating not done at gulp. More happi- ! ness to the square yard. Newspapers small. Outside world disposed of in about twenty lines. Lots of small comic illustrated pa pers. fTrink halles" on every corner.
 
 more. Sells lemonade, orangeade, soda Wa ter and other light, foggy fluid. People here always swallowing something. Elevator at hotel Big fuss over it. Two men in uniform to it. Pace, mile an hour. Beds all single. Everybody seems bedquilt Very light, full of feathers, in green silk bag.
 Barracks everywhere. Six stories. Full of soldiers. Soldiers everywhere Drilling eve rywhere. Drumming everywhere. Footing everywhere. Soldiers marching past the ho ready to kill somebody. Same all over Flu rope. Never out of sight of bayonet. Nations here are awfully afraid of each oth- CT. Singular pumps. Very tall. Long, crooked, iron handle. Reach to the ground. Tobacco shops all run by the government. Keep stamps also. Invariable sign over the door ffK. K." (King and Kaiser.) The em- peror does all the tobacco business. Not much tobacco in their cigars. Washed out. Prices of groceries and dry goods always marked on the article in the shop windows. Helps one to learn the language. Can read and translate as you walk.
 Cultivated shade trees lay over anything in America. Six rows, full grown in some streets, with walks underneath. Fountains, benches, everywhere. Business streets all shaded, not bare to the sun like Broadway or Fifth avenue. Bath houses five stories high. Every body here really washes by the bath and not by the bedroom washbasin. Went to one Girl cashier. Took my money. Turned me over to another girl. Black eyed. Good looking. Went in with me. Turned on water hot and cold. Both of us waited for the tub to fill. Wondered if she'd leave. Strange country. Novel customs. Tub fills up. Girl leaves. Examine door. No lock. Take off collar. Girl bursts in again. Brought more towels. And then aprons. Wondered what they were for. Found out. Inquired of the girl. What do you suppose! To put on---one behind the other before, and sit still in while, after using the hot water, the girl came back to turn on the cold. No handling of water by customer in Viennese bath. Girl must do it all. No such place as Vienna known in Austria. Austrian name, Wien. From the bit of river run ming through it. Danube river in rear of the city. Timber rafts always passing. Miles ! and miles of cultivated pine forests in Aus | tria. Pass through them by rail. No un- | deIbrush. Trees tall and straight by tens of ! thousands.